Richmond Police Department — Location Where Incident Report Filed
Heidi Martin bought a money order for $900 to pay her credit card bill, dropped it in the mail from her Richmond home, and assumed that was the end of it. Instead, she says someone else cashed it, and nearly a year later, she still has not gotten her money back.
Martin filed an incident report with Richmond Police after discovering the money order had been cashed by someone other than her credit card company, according to click2houston.com. She says she had simply bought a legitimate money order and sent it to pay a legitimate bill, only to watch it disappear into someone else’s pocket. To make sure her credit card account stayed current, Martin ended up paying another $900 out of pocket, on top of the $900 she had already lost.
A Case Referred to Federal Investigators, Still Open
Martin’s case was referred to federal postal investigators, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service has confirmed it remains open, per the same report. A reverse number search tied to the case located an address associated with the phone number on the money order, but the person connected to that phone number was not linked to the potential theft, leaving the trail cold for now…